![]() ![]() My first thought was “what am I going to do about Aouda?” It wasn’t even “how much time and effort will it take to research the entire world in 1872?” (a lot harder than I thought it would be). It wasn’t “how will I capture the spirit of Victorian adventure without replicating its morals?” (not all that hard, actually). So, when Jon and Joe from inkle studios asked me to adapt Around the World in 80 Days as interactive fiction, my first thought was not: “how can I explode the singular narrative of a novel into a thousand flexibly written incidents?” (hard work). In short, she is less a person than a trophy.Īouda is not just Indian, she is an imperialist’s vision of India: rescued from savagery and ignorance by the cool-headed rationality of an Englishman a grateful bounty that delivers itself willingly into the hands of the benign master. She is fair-skinned and soft-spoken and English-speaking and - of course - falls desperately, gratefully in love with Fogg. ![]() ![]() For those of you that haven’t had the pleasure of reading Jules Verne’s seminal adventure novel Around the World in 80 Days, Aouda is the Indian princess that the gentleman protagonist Phileas Fogg rescues from being burned alive. Here is a confession to start you off: I loathe Aouda. 80 Days is published by inkle studios in partnership with Profile Books, released for iPhone and iPad this month. Meg Jayanth is the writer of 80 Days – a steampunk interactive narrative adventure game based on Jules Verne’s ‘Around the World in Eighty Days’. Transforming Around the World in Eighty Days into an interactive story ![]()
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